This was a fun activity we did in October when teaching arrays. There are many variations you can do with it and it will still be just as cute.
After learning about arrays from our math program, students then decided what kind of monster they wanted to create. {beforehand, I copied a variety of monster shapes-all are in my packet-on a variety of colored cardstock, along with a variety of color cardstock copies of the body parts for the monsters}
Then, each kid chose a card at random that told them their array line up (5 rows of 3, etc). They needed to figure out how many eyes to get {I bought a container at Michael's with my coupon for them to use. I could not find a big set of ones to peel and stick.... so we had a lot of practice using Elmers runny glue! Totally set apart those who have great fine motor control, and those who still need a LOT of practice!
Before the gluing, however, they had to show me how their eyes will line up. Once they got the "go ahead" from me, the glueing commenced.
After their monster was done, they had to write information about their Monster on their cards. {I gave them a "scrap copy" that they got checked by me first to make sure things were spelled well enough, etc.... then they got their good, cardstock copy to write on afterwards}
The bulletin board was just AMAZING!
More practice we did with our arrays is that we painted with q-tips on paper (again, we copied onto cardstock to help keeping the paint from soaking through the paper). Kids chose cards again and had to dot the array in their choice of colors. After dotting their arrays, they had to write the addition sentence.
I made clean up a breeze by having bulletin board paper down at each group. They left the q-tips and I just folded it all up and put it in the trash.
If you like these activities and would want to try it out in your classroom, check out my packet in my TPT store!
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